Category: Safety
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Boy dies after swim in Disney pool
Read MyFOX8 and see 5KSDK Two days after he was pulled from the bottom of a swimming pool at a Disney resort in Florida, a 13-year-old boy from Missouri has died. Anthony Johnson had been playing in a pool at Disney’s Pop Century Resort on Sunday. No lifeguards were on duty at the time; signs…
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Behold “human slingshot” shooting daredevils into a lake
Crazy stuff via The Laughing Squid “Only 4 ribs were broken, two toes, and two people knocked out unconscious in the middle of the lake.â€
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Jamaican Free Diver Killed By Shark
Read SURF Police identified the victim as 68-year-old George Facey of the western town of Savanna-la-Mar. They said he was among a group of Jamaican fishermen who left the Old Harbour Bay Fishing Beach early in the day and encountered sharks while diving off a remote cay located some three miles off the south coast.…
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Soviet killer dolphins roam the Black Sea as we speak
Read the blog of dolphin scientist guy Justin Gregg After rebooting the Soviet Union’s marine mammal programjust last year with the goal of teaching dolphins to find underwater mines and kill enemy divers, three of the Ukrainian military’s new recruits have gone AWOL. It might not be such a big deal except that these dolphins have been…
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Herbert Nitsch’s final near-death 800ft dive record attempt featured on 60 Minutes
Re-airing throughout March, see for instance Sho Sports In his first interview since the 800-ft. dive that caused brain damage and ended his career, Free Diver Herbert Nitsch Reflects on his injuries and the dive that turned out to be his limit. Herbert Nitsch, known as “The Deepest Man on Earth†for the 32 world…
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Huge wave crashes proposal, she says ‘yes’ anyway
“I had the most amazing/crazy proposal on the 21st! I was surprised by a song written by my fiancé. He sang it atop a rock surrounded by the ocean waters at Laguna beach. As soon as he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, a HUGE wave completely engulfed us and…
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A man learns how stun gun fishing can be a bit tricky
Via Arbroath, a man fishing in a Vietnamese river learned the hard way how difficult it can be to fish safely by improvised stun gun. A relative quickly disconnected the mains electricity, limiting his injuries to only burnt hands and bruised pride.
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Swimmer’s advice if he sees a shark: ‘Swim like hell’
“Paul Muller has some sage advice for anyone who happens to see a shark while swimming in the ocean off Palm Beach.”